Comments on: Internship to professor for high schooler? http://www.rubabataineh.com/professor-berkeley/internship-to-professor-for-high-schooler Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:33:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: AMF http://www.rubabataineh.com/professor-berkeley/internship-to-professor-for-high-schooler/comment-page-1#comment-6687 AMF Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:59 +0000 http://www.rubabataineh.com/professor-berkeley/internship-to-professor-for-high-schooler#comment-6687 I'm a UC Berkeley graduate student, and I am not aware of any University-sponsored programs like this. As the previous poster said, professors want graduate students to assist their research and rarely even take on undergraduate students -- nevermind high school students. However, Lawrence Labs up the hill has a summer program specifically for high school students (you must apply your junior year). The application is open right now. Here is the description: "LIPS is a seven-week internship which provides high school juniors with the opportunity to work with world class scientists or engineers on projects related to the Laboratory’s research programs. Assignments cover a wide range of laboratory tasks and assistance in basic research." Link: http://www.lbl.gov/Education/CSEE/Programs/BLIPS/index.html<br><b>References : </b><br> I’m a UC Berkeley graduate student, and I am not aware of any University-sponsored programs like this. As the previous poster said, professors want graduate students to assist their research and rarely even take on undergraduate students — nevermind high school students.

However, Lawrence Labs up the hill has a summer program specifically for high school students (you must apply your junior year). The application is open right now. Here is the description:

"LIPS is a seven-week internship which provides high school juniors with the opportunity to work with world class scientists or engineers on projects related to the Laboratory’s research programs. Assignments cover a wide range of laboratory tasks and assistance in basic research."

Link: http://www.lbl.gov/Education/CSEE/Programs/BLIPS/index.html
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]]> By: eri http://www.rubabataineh.com/professor-berkeley/internship-to-professor-for-high-schooler/comment-page-1#comment-6686 eri Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:25:59 +0000 http://www.rubabataineh.com/professor-berkeley/internship-to-professor-for-high-schooler#comment-6686 While this is a great way to stand out for colleges, it's also very difficult to accomplish - summer internship programs for college undergrads are very competitive, and getting an internship otherwise is also hard to do - college professors would much rather take on grad students than undergrads, because they have more time and more knowledge of the subject - they require less training. It's hard enough for an undergrad to get an internship, let alone a high school student with no background in the field. You'd be competing against much more qualified people. The people who manage to get these positions either have connections or applied for programs specifically for high school students. Here are a few you could look into. http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/summer_programs/ http://education.gsfc.nasa.gov/pages/placement.html http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Education/Students/Research/sharp.html<br><b>References : </b><br> While this is a great way to stand out for colleges, it’s also very difficult to accomplish - summer internship programs for college undergrads are very competitive, and getting an internship otherwise is also hard to do - college professors would much rather take on grad students than undergrads, because they have more time and more knowledge of the subject - they require less training. It’s hard enough for an undergrad to get an internship, let alone a high school student with no background in the field. You’d be competing against much more qualified people. The people who manage to get these positions either have connections or applied for programs specifically for high school students. Here are a few you could look into.

http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/summer_programs/
http://education.gsfc.nasa.gov/pages/placement.html
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Education/Students/Research/sharp.html
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